For developers, there’s nothing more satisfying than looking at a web app or service and being able to say “I made that.” Or at least part of that. Being able to develop code that works and helps millions of people do what they need to get done is an excuse for bragging rights. But the […]
Open Source: Is Your DevOps Org Vulnerable to an Equifax-Style Hack?
More than half of the Fortune 100 could be at risk of falling prey to the same kind of hack that caused devastation at Equifax last year, and it all comes down to poor open source component governance. A new report out from Fortune reports that in the year after Apache Software Foundation issued an […]
Feature Branching vs. Feature Flags: What’s the Right Tool for the Job?
A dev team’s branch management strategy can have a significant impact on the rate at which it can release high-quality software. In this article we’ll explore the pros and cons of several different approaches for enabling multiple concurrent streams of dev work in the same codebase. We’ll see that two major factors—the cost of merge […]